and yet on the aisle and president obama raising the debt ceiling with no conditions. a clean vote to raise the debt ceiling. and the reason we find ourselves in grid lock is because that's never going to happen. that's never going be acceptable to the republicans just to raise the debt ceiling without there being some conditions attached to that. and even president obama when he was senator and we don't need to add to the debt ceiling, add to the deficit. we need to take further action. it's easier to talk about what needs to be done versus the hard work of getting it done. so the reason we find ourselves where we are right now is because either very politically difficult decision that we have to make. it means that we're not going be able to just continue the current path that america has been spending way beyond its means for many, many years. and where -- but we've reached that point where we can't just continue down this path that is impacting our economy. it impacts our military and our readynd. it impacts our children and the country that they're going to inheri